Tuesday, 15 January 2008

Thailand. Home cooked meals and all is well.

I said that I wanted to cook more this year and so far this has been true. We have been cooking most nights since New Years Eve. Even though I have been really busy I have still been cooking meals myself. I am actually really enjoying it and the food hasn’t tasted too bad considering I was a little rusty from not cooking. Here are a few food pictures from the last few days.

Our kitchen is simple; we do most of our cooking outside the back door using coals as our fuel. Tonight was a stir fry.


The onion and garlic went into the wok.


The pork went in next to brown off a little.


Next the vegetables went in, carrot, cauliflower, tomato, mushroom, baby corn and also some oyster sauce, fish sauce and water went in.




Miss Noot getting the soup ready.










Finished product, the sauce was delicious.


The soup was a winner as well.


More fresh vegetables, pork and chicken.


Egg mix a Noot special.


Noot the chef tonight.


The omelette cooked.


The meal, omelette, pork and Chinese Kale and chicken soup.


Then it was my turn in the kitchen and I made crumbed chicken. Here is the tempura batter mix and breadcrumbs.


The chicken cooking.


In the end served with steamed vegetables cauliflower, broccoli, carrot, asparagus and mashed potato. It was popular and I had to go out and cook more chicken.

That’s just a few pictures of what we have been eating. It is a lot healthier than what we were eating and it tastes pretty good to boot. I am enjoying my New Years resolution.

Brunty.

2 comments:

MJ Klein said...

life is tough sometimes, Brunty. this post does it for me. i'm going back to Thailand as soon as possible!

we have one of those charcoal burners that we got in Thailand, only to find one in our local Thai store, lol. they work great. the food looks awesome. looking forward to more shots. we should start a food blog network!

Brunty said...

MJ I look forward to that day and I do hope in the near future to visit Taiwan.

There great these little burners and I have two of them and also a little cast iron one I use for grilling on. It is so cheap as a really huge bag on charcoal is 50 baht and that last us a good 2 months. So that's just under two dollars Australian.

The heat I can get from the coal is much better than the electric woks and cookers I have. They weren't top of teh line but are good brands and not cheap.

I think people would 'kill' you if you started a food blog as people will all get obese from reading the blog and then going out and gourging themselves silly.

Thanks for commenting MJ